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▪ I. exceeding, vbl. n.|ɛkˈsiːdɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the verb exceed, in various senses. †b. An instance of the same; an unusual action, a performance in excess of what is requisite (obs.). †c. The quality of surpassing others; superiority, excellence (obs.).
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ii. (1520) 13/2 Salamon..of the gyfte of our lorde hadde a synguler excedynge above all men. 1593Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift 29 No more will..a frend crosse her louing exceedinges, in whome his hart delighteth. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. viii. 102 Our defects as well as our exceedings. a1656Bp. Hall Occas. Medit. (1851) 91 But these exceedings should be both rare and moderate. 1711Addison Spect. No. 21 ⁋2 There has been a great Exceeding of late Years in the second Division.
2. concr.
a. pl. In college language (still used at Cambridge): Extra commons allowed on festival occasions. Also transf. Cf. exceed 6. [So L. excedentia in Oxf. Accts. c 1400.]
1629Massinger Picture v. i, They..hold cheese-parings..For festival exceedings. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. i. 297 His joys..They are as exceedings, with which he feasts the believer, but the cloth is soon drawn. 1662J. Strype in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 178 Sometimes we have Exceedings; then we have two or three dishes..otherwise never but one. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 199 Certain..Virtuosos..unsatisfied with the Brevity of the Gazette desire to have Exceedings of News, besides their ordinary Commons. 1885L. Stephen Life H. Fawcett iii. 77 The Christmas ‘exceedings’ as they were called in our official language, had a certain reputation.
†b. chiefly pl. An amount (of funds, goods, etc.) in excess of calculation, or of what is usual; an excess, a surplus. Obs.
1719W. Wood Surv. Trade 54 The Exceedings of the year 1712, which had so prodigious a Ballance in our Favour. 1797Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 417 Including the fisheries, and making a moderate allowance for the exceedings..beyond his calculations. 1828Ld. Grenville Sink. Fund 5 Without such an exceeding..a sinking fund..can have no solid operation. 1833Lamb Elia (1860) 384 Much ado we used to have every..December to account for our exceedings.
▪ II. exˈceeding, ppl. a. and adv.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
A. adj.
†1. Of persons, actions, language, etc.: Overstepping the limits of propriety or custom; going to extremes. Obs.
1494Fabyan Chron. iv. lxiii. 43 He exercisid Tyranny..in so excedynge maner, that the Countree waxed wery of hym, & conspyrid his deth. 1529More Dyaloge iv. Wks. 265/1 To shew by that great exceding word [let him be anathema] the vndoubted trouth of the faith. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 315 Why was Anna so exceeding in craving children at the hands of God? 1644Hunton Vind. Treat. Monarchy lv. 27 Exceeding Acts notwithstanding morall limitation are authoritative. 1742Mrs. Delany Autobiog. & Corr. (1861) II. 191 Sir Philip Sydney's famous Romance..is far exceeding the exceedingness of the most exceeding imagination.
2. Surpassing in amount or degree; extremely great, excessive. Now only with ns. denoting quality, condition, or feeling, or including a notion of magnitude or multitude. Rarely used predicatively.
1547–8Order Communion 10 The excedyng loue of our master and onely sauior Jesus Christ. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 23 In the .vi. yere of his [William II's] reigne were exceedyng floodes. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. v. 10 Whose beauties beame..daz'd the eyes of all as with exceeding light. 1664Power Exp. Philos. I. 76 The exceeding quantity of Water which at every interval he drinks. c1680Beveridge Serm. (1729) II. 133 It cannot but be an exceeding grief..to you that you cannot obey..him. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) I. Pref. 41 Attended with a vast concourse of people and exceeding magnificence. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 677 Reports touching the exceeding badness of the beer which he brewed. 1866Neale Sequences & Hymns 112 The exceeding host of priests. 1875Scrivener Lect. Grk. Test. 19 Their exceeding value for illustrating the literary history of these..ages. 1878G. Macdonald Phantastes II. xx. 132 His love for his father was so exceeding.
†3. Of surpassing excellence. Obs.
1552Latimer Serm. (1571) 166 b, Christ tooke..our nature vpon him..Oh, what an exceeding thing is this? 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out Hum. ii. ii. Wks. (Rtldg.) 43/1 How long shall I live, ere I be so happy To have a wife of this exceeding form?
B. adv. = next. Prefixed to adjs. or advbs. Very common in 17–18th c.; now somewhat arch.
1535Coverdale 1 Chron. xxii. [xxi.] 13 Yet wyl I rather fall in to y⊇ hande of the Lorde, for his mercy is exceadynge greate. 1599Shakes. Much Ado iii. iv. 25 My heart is exceeding heauy. 1644Milton Educ. Wks. (1847) 99/2 We Englishmen..are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward. 1735Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 18 Mr. Delamotte was exceeding sick for several days. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 96 Our Papua friends..had behaved exceeding civily. 1814Wordsw. Excursion i. 112 A virtuous household, though exceeding poor. 1857H. Miller Test. Rocks. viii. 321 The controversy is one in which there is exceeding little footing for any party. 1857Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. 17 Sept., He is of exceeding fluent talk. |